About the editors
Editor: Terry L. Sheppard
Before assuming the Editorship of Nature Chemical Biology, Terry spent 6 years at Northwestern University's Department of Chemistry, where he developed an independent program in nucleic acid chemical biology, which included investigations of oxidative DNA damage and repair, template-directed synthesis, and nucleoside therapeutics. This followed his appointment as a NASA postdoctoral fellow with Gerald F. Joyce at The Scripps Research Institute, where he discovered, using in vitro evolution, a "DNA enzyme" that catalyzed DNA depurination and strand cleavage. Terry completed his Ph.D. in organic chemistry with Ronald Breslow at Columbia University in 1995, where he synthesized 2',5'-linked DNA and evaluated its promise for antisense therapeutic applications.
Terry is based in the East Coast US editorial office of Nature Chemical Biology in Boston and can be contacted at:
Terry L. Sheppard
Nature Chemical Biology Editorial Office
25 First Street, Suite 104
Cambridge, MA 02141
USA
Tel: +1 617 475 9273
Fax: +1 617 494 4960
E-mail: t.sheppard@boston.nature.com
Senior Editor: Joanne Kotz
Prior to joining Nature Chemical Biology, Joanne undertook industry-based postdoctoral research at Genentech, working with Andrea Cochran, where her research focused on developing combinatorial methods to study protein stability and using chemical tools to investigate the biological role of a mitotic kinase. This followed postdoctoral research in bacterial pathogenesis with Xavier Nassif at the Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital in Paris. Joanne obtained her PhD in 2000 from the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied enzyme mechanism in copper amine oxidases with Judith Klinman.
Joanne is based in the East Coast US editorial office of Nature Chemical Biology in Boston and can be contacted at:
Joanne Kotz
Nature Chemical Biology Editorial Office
25 First Street, Suite 104
Cambridge, MA 02141
USA
Tel: +1 617 475 9204
Fax: +1 617 494 4960
E-mail: j.kotz@boston.nature.com
Associate Editor: Mirella Bucci
Before joining Nature Chemical Biology, Mirella spent 3 years working in editorial and science writing positions, including an editorial position at Nature. Her research in molecular cell biology took her to Washington University, where she worked as a graduate student with Susan Wente studying the dynamics of nuclear pore complexes. She went on to Stanford University, where as a postdoctoral fellow she studied protein folding and protein aggregation in the context of several neurodegenerative diseases with Ron Kopito. Mirella completed her undergraduate degree in chemistry and biology at Carnegie Mellon University, where she studied with Robert Murphy at CMU's Molecular Biosensor and Imaging Center.
Mirella is based in the West Coast US editorial office of Nature Chemical Biology in San Francisco and can be contacted at:
Mirella Bucci
Nature Chemical Biology Editorial Office
225 Bush Street, Suite 1453
San Francisco, CA 94104
USA
Tel: +1 415 403 9036
Fax: +1 415 718 3805
E-mail: m.bucci@naturesf.com
Associate Editor: Catherine Goodman
Before joining the team at Nature Chemical Biology, Catherine worked as an NIH postdoctoral fellow with Bill DeGrado at the University of Pennsylvania, where she focused on the structural design of non-natural and transmembrane peptides. This followed a PhD obtained under the guidance of Vince Rotello at the University of Massachusetts, where her research included biomimetic investigations of flavin cofactors as well as development of DNA-binding nanoparticles. Catherine started her scientific career at Rice University synthesizing modified DNA nucleotides for Scott Singleton.
Catherine is based in the East Coast US editorial office of Nature Chemical Biology in Boston and can be contacted at:
Catherine Goodman
Nature Chemical Biology Editorial Office
25 First Street, Suite 104
Cambridge, MA 02141
USA
Tel: +1 617 475 9240
Fax: +1 617 494 4960
E-mail: c.goodman@boston.nature.com
